The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Miss LIZZIE BELL SINCLAIR, OF Everittstown,
Hunterdon county, \. j., completed on her
18th birthday bed-quilt containing 11,2i0
pieces.
SOMEBODY wrote to an Allegan doctor asking
If he could remove a cataract and upon receiv-
ing an affirmative reply suggested that he tackle
the one at Niagara.
A oNE-Ho BURGLAR blew open the safe in
the Niles Milling Companys office the other
night and secured 35c., making him about lOc
an hour for his work.
A MUsKEGoN policeman gave "A girl fits the
other day because she was paralyzing her piano
and killing the neighbors. They were real fits
too and doctor has been attending her ever
since.
LETrER-CARRiER MARX, of Port Huron, has
quit the business after being in 1t Just a month
and walking 1000 miles. According to The
| Times he viii preserve the remains of bis uni
form in alcohol to show his poSterity that he
served his country faithfully, dogs or no dogs.
TELEGRAPH RATES in the United Kingdom are
uniform, it is stated, and reversing the order
that obtains on this side the rate is increased
for night messages. The press rate from a.
| IN. till D. m, oae-quarter of q cent word is
| increased to one-third of a cent word after
| p. IN.
MANY ARRESTS have been made in Portland,
Ore, of persons charged with selling oleomar
garine, but. California chemists have fur
| alleged bogus butter was the pure, legitimate
| article, nothing has thus far come of the prose
| cutionS.
In Webster county, Virginia, are number Of
tall men, witness the following record;
| Thomas GREGORY 6 feet inches Adam Ham
rick, feet inches John T. Woods, Kelly b.
| Hamrick, Adam j. Hamrck, James Hamr1cs,
). B. Hamrick and Wesley Parish, each feet
| inches.
A GOOD many people have been married on
the quiet in Chicago recently, the marriage
license having been temporarily suppressed in
the County Clerks office. STILL marriage is not
generally considered diShonorable act. and
there is certainly no law against it. In singular
contrast to these secret weddings are the pnblic
| hearings of divorce cases in the courts
Mrs. EMELIA MIKKELsoN. residing at 2O17
Seventh street, Minneapolis, died suddenly the
other night. The circumstances connected with
her death are peculiar; calf which was play
| ing in the yard jumped upon her and so fright
| ened her that she died few minutes later.
post norton showed that the lady had been
| suffering from heart trouble, which was aggra-
| waited by the shock, causing death.
THE stage coach that was carrying S., 900 from
Mazatlan to Rosario to pay the employees and
miners of the Tajo Mining Company recently,
was halted by sixteen men at a hill known as
| DeviSadora. The assailants fired volley from
their rifles, killing woman and child, the only
| passengers in the coach, and gravely wounding
the conductor. After robbing the coach of the
silver it was permitted to proceed.
NUMBER of enterprising Detroit gentlemen
have organized workngman's club for the
| purpose of furnishing the young men an even
| ing resort. Thus far a reading-room has been
equipped with all the leading newspapers, maya
| zines and other literature. stage has been
| built for amateur theatricals and concerts. A
| city cannot have too many such places to
neutralize the destinations of the saloon.
WHILE digging well on the premises of Al
| fred Todd, Bowen, ILL.,, a few days ago,
John Rice, who had charge of the work, was
| badly burned by an explosion of gas flame
shooting into the air for forty or fifty feet The
| blaze did not continne after the explosion, but
| the water in the well is mixture of mud and
| sand that bois and bubbles with the escaping
| gas with a roaring noise that can be heard for
| 100 yards. Mr.. Todd has written to geologist
| about it.
THE new Congressional Library building. will
| be the largest building in Washington except
| the Capitol. 1t will cover 1900 feet more room
than the library of the British Museum. 1t is
| well to have it big, for its annual accessions
| must be enormous Copies of every American
book that is copyrighted are sent there. and sets
| Of all the public documents are preserved there.
| Imagine what amount Of storage would be re-
quired to shelter the increase of q century from
| these sources alone.
| A PHENOMENON in the shape of a plague of
ants is reported from Nancy France The in
| sects were immense in size, some having wings
but the majority wingless. They fell in such
| large numbers that the inhabitants Thought that
| they were having a repetition of one of the
| plaques of Egypt. The thick black flakes kept
| pouring from the air from until 8 O'Clock in
the evening, and every district in the city
| covered with what has been described for want
OF a better expires ion, as living black hail"
IMPORTANT NEWS from several English papers:
I'm the United States the telephone is already
| being superseded A writing telegraph is al
| ready working on commercial scale and with
| marked success. The writer uses a stylus or
| pen. with which he writes in ordinary fashion
| but only on the empty air. Before his face is a
| second pen, which reproduceS his words on the
| tape in front of it. At the other end the re-
celving pen reproduceS the message in fac
| smile"
In Servia, Bulgaria, and Roumania boots made
| of bullock's hide or leather and which are sim
| ply fiat piece of leather drawn over the foot
| all round and fastened by leather thongs or
birch bark crossed over the leg which is encased
IN either stockings or piece of red cloth,
worn by the peasantry The Slavonic peasantry
in Austria also wear boots of the same descrir-
ton, and so do the Turkish soldiers, but thew
make their own. The Russian peasants make
shoes of birch bark, and fasten them in the
| same way over stockings except in winter when
high leather boots worn.
MARGARET L. CAIN, claiming to be an Eau
thoress, dramatic reader, lecturer and elocii-
ZIONIST has begun suit in Chicago to recover
damages from persons who, she alleges have
loss she includes ''one pair of silk stockings of
the value of So so; one coffee mill, 25c; six fiat
irons, Toe; six corsets, S16; one flannel skirt
80; one box of pearline 15c fifty manuscripts
of original poems, $1,000 twelve manuscripts
of original songs $500; one temperance lecture,
$50; one work on elocution, $1,000, and one
DRAMA $500 Wear and tear to her temper in
| creases her total bill to $4,000.
'To give the cue' is a common phrase. Ac-
cording to most dictionaries, cue lin its
theatrical sense) is derived from the Latin
''cauda," through the French 'queue" and the
same authorities say that it means the last
words of a speech which the actor who has to
reply. catches and regards a notice to begin
This theory is perhaps. supported by the fact
that in French theatrical phrases, what we call
the 'cue" is styled the "replique' But Mr.
Wedgewood maintains that the above etymology
is quite erroneous He says that 'cue" is de-
rived from %" the first letter Of the Latin |
'quando,n which used to be marked on the |
Roman players parts to show when they were |
to enter and speak.
WHEN Prof. Mendelaieff was descending in his
military balloon near Moscow after observing
the recent eclipse, several peasants ran out of |
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